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CotoBlogzz | 04/23/09 | 03:00 PM |

After promising the most transparent
administration in history, the President signed a
Spending Bill, otherwise known as the BINER
(the Bill No one Read). Then there is a Treasury
Secretary who does not have people – as in H&R,
for example. Not to mention that the President
made it clear he did not want any lobbyists in the new
administration, unless these were from the finance,
banking, auto media (as in Immelt) and organized labor
sectors.

Then there is the Honorable Senator Chris Dodd, from
Connecticut who denied he had anything to do with the
AIG bonus debacle before he admitted to being the
author of the legislation authorizing AIG
bonuses – the same Senator the President so
effusively has endorsed.

Attorney General Eric Holder told
Congress today, he will not
selectively release classified terror memos, after
the administration selectively released classified
terror memos.

According to the April 23, 2009
issue of the Wall Street Journal, ousted Bank of
America CEO Ken Lewis testified under oath before New
York’s attorney general that he was pressured to
keep silent about the financial difficulties at
Merrill Lynch, while “the two sides negotiated
government funding to help BoA absorb Merrill and its
huge losses.”

Tragically David Kellerman, Freddie
Mac’s acting chief financial officer apparently
committed suicide yesterday, at his home. So we
will not go there nor Barney Frank’s abhorrent
denial of culpability.

Closer to home, even though
registered lobbyist outnumber lawmakers in Sacramento
8-to-1, there are the government funded
unregistered lobbyists, such as the CLRC and or the
Redundant Department of Redundancy, who do work
otherwise elected officials should be doing, but they
fly under the radar screen with virtually no scrutiny.

And what does a big-time city Mayor
from a bankrupt state do in order to afford the otherwise
unaffordable? Under the cover of
mail-in ballots, you deploy a “creative plan” to
circumvent the democratic process: Sort of like
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to
have property owners to quadruple what they pay to
fight storm-water pollution, using a process that
allows the city to avoid the usual two-thirds
requirement for raising new revenues.